Tamar Braxton Quotes

I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.

Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.

We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.

I know that people have their own opinions and they look at what the norm is for people. I look at age as just being a number. In my mind my age is still 28 and I think I have to remember how old I am.

I realize that I'm kind of a different person than I thought I was.

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

People can call you many different things, but you are not what people call you. You are what you answer to.

I've got an age that I do think of myself.

I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.

I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass so it must be true.

I don't really see myself that way, as some typical sexy young ingénue. I've never been that way. And, for a while, there was a disconnect between who I am and how I present myself on a public platform. That was because I didn't necessarily feel comfortable sharing that much of myself with other people who I didn't know.

I went to school, and I remember that you had to do these tests to find out what set you're in - how clever you are. I put down "Kit Harington," and they looked at me like I was completely stupid, and they said, "No, you're Christopher Harington, I'm afraid." It was only then I learnt my actual name. That was kind of a bizarre existential crisis for an 11-year-old to have, but in the end I always stuck with Kit, because I felt that's who I was. I'm not really a "Chris."

I'm not a woman! Let's make that very clear! Oh I don't know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or 65 percent of me is.

I don't know how to not become every person I walk by.

But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of 'I' that I can hardly bear to think of it. I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two short horizontal lines in quick, smug succession. The pen scratching on the paper…I…I…I…I…I…I.

I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them.

When I look in the mirror, I see about a thousand different Jadas.

When one crosses over from an activity, or the verb, of writing or doing, and becomes a noun, like "a writer" I think that is an act of supreme self-consciousness that I've never, in effect, made. I write, but I don't like to think of myself as a writer. I think it's somewhat self-aggrandizing and pretentious. Now, I am a teacher.

Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

My age now, like my age 20 years ago, marks the year in which I was born. That's all.

We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we can never be sure, and as our lives go on, we become more and more opaque to ourselves, more and more aware of our own incoherence. No one can cross the boundary into another – for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself.

I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it's very difficult to figure out where I fit.

Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are!